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...cost-benefit analyses of alternative national policies to control pollutants. “Our primary goal is not to change policy,” Nielsen said. “Our goal is to build the scholarship.” He called for peer-reviewed, published studies on the topic to complement the existing literature. Though the researchers emphasized the long-term nature of the project, they also encouraged its immediate application. “In the short run this is really a bad problem,” said Mun Ho, a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences...
Last week, Bill Polian, the president of the Indianapolis Colts, came to Harvard to speak at the former Mayor of Indianapolis Bart Peterson’s Institute of Politics (IOP) study group. The topic of discussion, according to the IOP’s website, was “The Politics of Being an NFL City.” But for the Ivy League sports enthusiast, Polian offered information on Harvard football’s latest NFL entrant, Clifton Dawson...
...fantastic Chinese food in Singapore,” then they’re interested. Because food is something that’s totally universal and everyone shares. You ingest it; you are what you eat. THC: Did the focus of the book shift in its evolution? Did any topic surprise you by coming to the forefront?JL: Well, when I started out, I didn’t know fortune cookies were Japanese. So that was surprising and really came to the forefront, along with a bit more about Chinese immigration. Oh, and Jews and Chinese food got its own chapter...
...backgrounds in excessive depth either. “I don’t go to that great pains to explain,” he said. “I don’t paint it too clearly.” McCarthy did, however, have much to say on the topic of deportation and the treatment of detainees, a subject that many members of the audience touched on in the question and answer session. “We can definitely do better than this as a country,” he said. “It’s inhumane...
...records to tell us what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - the future Pope Benedict XVI - thought of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But the influential prelate, then head of the Vatican's office for internal doctrinal matters, clearly had a forceful opinion. Soon after the bombs fell on Baghdad, the topic came up in April 2003 as Ratzinger talked with fellow Cardinals Carlo Maria Martini of Italy and Paul Poupard of France at an intimate Vatican diplomatic reception. A Church official present that evening remembers the typically soft-spoken German shaking his fists, and blurting out in Italian: "Basta! Basta!" Enough...